If you store this information as plain text, unscrupulous users can easily steal the data either through online SQL queries or by scanning the files on the database server's hard drive. Microsoft ...

Microsoft introduced transparent data encryption (TDE) when it released SQL Server 2008, adding full database encryption rather than the limited cell-based encryption that debuted in SQL Server 2005.

This isn't something I would have thought to be impossible to find information on. I can't find any documentation or articles that show if SharePoint 2010 supports the "Force Encryption" on the MS ...

At Microsoft TechEd 2004 in San Diego, Microsoft provided further details on its upcoming database release now known as SQL Server 2005 (formerly code-named “Yukon”). The software will natively ...

Oracle, for instance, has selective data-encryption features, and Transparent Data Encryption is available in SQL Server 2008 edition and higher.

Symantec is reselling the new technology from Vormetric Inc. in order to encrypt data on a file system at actual backup server, according to Jon Oltsik, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group in ...

Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim Chapman discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth ...